Antares

“Uneducated people delight in argument and fault-finding, for it is easy to find fault, but difficult to recognize the good and its inner necessity.”
― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Elements of the Philosophy of Right

“Men are like rivers: the water is the same in each, and alike in all; but every river is narrow here, is more rapid there, here slower, there broader, now clear, now cold, now dull, now warm. It is the same with men. Every man carries in himself the germs of every human quality”
― Leo Tolstoy, Resurrection

“For it is great to give up one's wish, but it is greater to hold it fast after having given it up, it is great to grasp the eternal, but it is greater to hold fast to the temporal after having given it up.”
― Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling

“And to contend with the whole world is a comfort, but to contend with oneself dreadful.”
― Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling